MicroGateway Docs Query -Internet - Intranet Deployment Diagram

Google Cloud Apigee
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Use Edge Microgateway to protect intranet traffic while protecting internet traffic with Apigee Edge, deployment diagram is little confusing. Please help me understand same.

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Above diagram says, Traffic hits Target API through intranet & again → Edge Micro → Target API . Why does it hit target API twice ?

Should it be like the below one ?

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Is my understanding wrong ? Any help @docs @Prabhat Jha ?

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Hi @Anil Sagar – Thanks for pointing this out. I’m trying to get clarification on the diagram and will post an update or revision as soon as it’s ready.

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Target API Implementation on left is different from one of on the right. I can see why it’s confusing though. To give a more concrete example, Edge cloud proxies say is /orders which hits target API https://mycompany.com/orders (Target API Implementation on left ) which then would need to call multiple microservices (Target API implementation on right) internally say /customers and /transactions

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Thank you @prabhat for the clarification. It’s helpful. @docs / @wwitman, Can we update this information / point to this post from @docs to avoid confusion ? Thank you.

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Thanks @Anil Sagar – I added this information to the doc.

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Awesome, Thank you @wwitman , +1ed your comment for sharing the update :slight_smile:

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So what is stopping /orders calling /customers or /transactions directly without going thru Microgateway?